Chapter 257 Heading North to Shenzhou

Watching with his own eyes how he evolved from being placed on the altar to being hung on the wall in just a few years, Su Yun could no longer bear it, no matter how thick-skinned and strong-willed he was. He packed up his bags overnight and planned to quickly go north to China to avoid the limelight...

Unfortunately, there is still a lot of work to do: although the filming of "The Exorcist" was scheduled to be after she finished filming "Grave Robbers", because the two series are closely related, she has to make corresponding plans as soon as possible, so that when she leads the team to the north to shoot the location, the staff in Hong Kong can also help with some of the preliminary preparations.

This practice of staggering the working hours and manpower of both sides is a common way to improve efficiency in film shooting.

After handing the plan to Fang Mona and asking her to find suitable assistant director and second team candidates, Su Yun came to the conference room to meet Christopher Lee, who flew over from the United States to audition for the villain role in the movie.

As the prototype of the legendary "007", Christopher Lee, a famous and talented veteran actor and film legend, took the initiative to extend an olive branch to them. Logically, Su Yun should have accepted it with great joy.

However, after finding out Christopher's resume showed that he had played the discriminatory stereotype character of "Fu Manzhou" many times, Su Yun immediately frowned and directly rejected his "good intentions".

However, Christopher did not get discouraged after receiving the rejection message. Instead, he got Su Yun's phone number through his connections, called Su Yun overseas with sincerity, and said very seriously that he wanted to take this role in order to make up for what happened that year.

At that time, he was still an unknown little actor, and due to the usual foreign publicity methods, he did not have a deep understanding of this kind of discriminatory role. Later, after gradually knowing the hidden meaning of this role, he had already signed the contract and could not withdraw, so he had to bite the bullet and continue filming. Therefore, Christopher has been brooding over the fact that he had played this role for many years.

It was not until he received news about Su Yun's new film project and learned that Su Yun was looking for an elderly actor who understood Chinese culture to play a villain that he began to think that this was a perfect opportunity to apologize, so he decided to do his best to make sure he played the villain role.

Therefore, when he came to Hong Kong for the interview, in addition to his professional acting skills, he also apologized to Su Yun very sincerely: "Although this is not enough to express my apology to the Chinese people, I hope I can do something, and I know what I should be able to do."

Su Yun looked at this former spy who had walked through blood and fire with mixed feelings. His eyes were always filled with regrets that had gone through the years...

In the end, Su Yun sighed and decided on his role.

Some people and things should not and cannot be forgiven, but when faced with a sincere apology, the Chinese will always choose to "forget it temporarily."

It's not forgetfulness, but simply respect for the repentant person who recognizes his mistakes, admits them, and tries his best to make amends.

After deciding on the crew members for the northern filming, Su Yun began to instruct the logistics department to prepare things for the crew: the place they were going to was already the central and western part of the vast territory of mainland China, and the time they were going north was winter and the location was a remote mountain village, so the equipment they brought definitely could not be ordinary cotton-padded clothes for the warm winter climate in Hong Kong, but must be high-end cold-proof equipment with keywords such as plush, thickened, down, windproof, and snowproof.

As for filming equipment and other communication equipment, you must also choose types that can withstand low temperatures.

After a lot of busy work, in the end, in addition to two buses for people and two multi-purpose vans, there were three large trucks for luggage and filming equipment.

On the day of departure, Su Yun said goodbye to Grandma Su and the Mei sisters at home. In recent years, Su Yun had been flying around for work and was away from home most of the time. So in order to avoid the sadness of every farewell and for safety reasons, Su Yun tried her best to persuade them to stay at home.

However, this time, there was another reason why Grandma Su did not go up with them, which Su Yun had never thought about: Su Yun was going north by land, and it was the Zhao family who should go back to see him off.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Grandma Su decided to give up this farewell opportunity.

Therefore, Su Yun's persuasion was very successful this time, but when she got on the car, she encountered Huang Misheng and the Zhao sisters who came to see her off.

However, Fang Mona, who came here with them, was much calmer than Huang Misheng and the other two.

Finally, Fang Mona lowered her eyes and walked to the office in silence as she watched the convoy slowly drive onto the newly built road.

Su Yun, who had been busy working since she got on the bus, had no idea how the people who stayed in Hong Kong missed her.

At this time, she was sitting in a van, leading the first filming unit to shoot footage from the big city highway all the way to the remote mountain village, as a transition to the scene in the movie where the protagonist brothers returned to China and took a car to their destination.

At present, the urbanization level here in the inland area is definitely not as good as that of major European and American cities that have made great progress. However, the art of light and shadow is to use various shooting techniques to transform all the seemingly common things that people think are redundant after just one glance into breathtaking and fascinating images.

Therefore, Su Yun did not focus on capturing those seemingly newly built high-rise buildings, but instead paid close attention to some old buildings that integrated local traditional characteristics, combined with the pedestrians who are now simply dressed but energetic and look very vibrant at first glance. The vitality of all construction is still in its initial stages and therefore still has infinite hope, which makes people feel much happier than the numb crowds rushing around in big cities.

As we gradually walked towards the remote mountain villages, it was even easier to take photos than in the city: nature always has a charm that warms people's hearts, and mountain villages are closer to nature than cities. Unless you deliberately make the photos look backward, dirty and messy for some purpose, it is easy to get good results.

The land of China is especially vast, with diverse terrain. Along the way, the distant green mountains with mist and morning smoke floating in the air are as moving as a landscape painting.

One night while resting on the way, Zhao Qiming, who had agreed with Su Yun to stop in Shenzhen to check out the real estate business there, knocked on Zhuang Long's door, carrying a small pot of wine and a few side dishes that had been warmed up by a country family.

Knowing that he must have something to ask him, Zhuang Long politely invited him in: "I'm sorry, my conditions are so simple that I couldn't treat you well."

"It's okay. I came to you mainly to talk about something that's on my mind." Zhao Liming waved his hand and filled both of their small bowls with wine.

After chatting idly for about ten minutes, Zhao Liming finally implicitly expressed the real purpose of his visit that night: he hoped that Zhuang Long would help "take care" of his sister Su Yun after he left the crew.

Every time Zhao Liming thought of the "plan to cultivate a tyrant" that he had carried out against Su Yun in order to get Zhao Liying back, he felt extremely regretful.

But there was nothing he could do, he had to take some of the blame himself: although the cooperation with Su Yun was relatively smooth at that time, and he felt a little guilty, but Zhao Liying, his cousin who was like a father and a brother to him, was the one who brought him into the film and television industry since he was a child. In addition, Zhao Liying was obviously harmed by his biological father who was like a yellow-skinned tree mynah bird. It has always been his obsession to get Zhao Liying to return to Hong Kong.

So they could only go against their conscience and let the unsuspecting Su Yun be gradually diverted away by the handsome men and beautiful women they arranged - yes, Zhao Qiming, who used to think that Su Yun was born with great potential as a player, now has his eyes completely blinded by the sister control filter, and immediately changed his previous attitude, thinking that men and women who approach Su Yun have bad intentions...

Especially those who are almost the same age as Su Yun!

Whether it is Chen Bai, Yang Li, and Zhang Querong from Hong Kong, Huang Jiaju and Lin Jiashu from Japan, or Tom and Keanu from the United States...which of these people has not worked with Su Yun?

And which one of them was not carefully written down by Su Yun in a little notebook, and she would send greeting cards and special gifts at regular times, make phone calls, and even fly over great distances to visit them for a reunion?

This year, they only received a fruit basket from Su Yun and some gift boxes of ginseng, antlers, seafood and bird's nest that were obviously made with high quality ingredients!

This kind of gift is usually given at social events, how can it be as thoughtful as a greeting card written by your own little sister?!

Although the Zhao family was very happy to receive the New Year gift from Su Yun, Zhao Qiming, who thought too much, was happy but still felt a little aggrieved.

God bless you, this is really unfair to Su Yun - the young friends she knows are all ordinary families, and giving them too much gifts would make them uncomfortable, so Su Yun habitually sends them local specialties or hand-drawn and written greeting cards on a regular basis during festivals.

On the one hand, it can serve as a way for everyone to keep in touch when they are scattered all over the world. On the other hand, it can also help maintain communication in this era of increasingly frequent changes in address and communication, making it convenient to find people when performing in the future.

As for the reason why the Zhao family received a fruit basket and a gift box of ginseng, antlers, seafood and bird's nest as New Year gifts, it was because Zhao Rifu was famous for his love of ginseng. Everyone on TV knew that he almost ate ginseng as a meal to maintain his health. Su Yun even suspected that the long standby state of him and the gambling king, which was longer than the founding of New China, was maintained by eating supplements three times a day...

As for seafood, bird's nests, and fruits, they are suitable for Huang Misheng, Fang Mona, and brothers and sisters. After all, most Cantonese tonics and desserts are made of these ingredients, which can be eaten directly or processed. For the first time gift giving, it is definitely better to choose a safe option that is better to be simple than to make mistakes.

Unfortunately, Zhao Liming had no idea about Su Yun's thoughts, and he also noticed that Su Yun was not as close to him as before after their relationship was made clear. As a result, he accumulated more and more grievances of contrast and hurt. If it weren't for the fact that it was time for him to go to Shenzhen Stock Exchange regularly every year, he might even have been reluctant to leave the crew.

"Fortunately, you are here, otherwise I would really be worried about leaving like this." Zhao Liming poured another glass of wine for Zhuang Long, a glass that showed that they were good brothers on the same side: although Zhuang Long was no worse than those people he was guarding against in terms of appearance and figure, he and Su Yun had known each other since childhood, and the way they had gotten along during this period of time was obviously the same mode as his own, with the elders facing the younger generation.

And because the two have a close relationship, Su Yun seems to listen to Zhuang Long when she is not filming, and Zhuang Long will occasionally take care of some of Su Yun's whims - well, this is exactly the same as the scene when Zhao Liying, as the elder cousin, took good care of his younger cousin.

"Don't worry. I have watched Su Su grow up since she was a child. I will of course take good care of her." Probably knowing why Zhao Liming specifically looked for him to drink before leaving, Zhuang Long replied very seriously.

"That's good. I can die peacefully now." The younger generation is not too shy about their words. After hearing Zhuang Long's reply, Zhao Liming immediately expressed his great satisfaction.

With Zhuang Long, the "elder" watching over her, it would be difficult for Su Yun to create any scandal that would make his heart beat faster!

However, Zhao Qiming was so bewildered by Zhuang Long's gentlemanly appearance that he failed to remember in time that there is a phrase in this world called "surveillance and self-stealing"...